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Expansion for Knowledge Criteria

1051 1. Philosophy
623 2. Reason
626 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1242 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1041 7. Existence
881 8. Modes of Existence
1528 9. Objects
799 10. Modality
484 11. Knowledge Aims
711 12. Knowledge Sources
633 13. Knowledge Criteria
A. Justification Problems
15 1. Justification a. Justification issues
12 b. Need for justification
10 c. Defeasibility
10 2. Justification Challenges a. Agrippa's trilemma
13 b. Gettier problem
17 c. Knowledge closure
24 3. Internal or External a. Pro-internalism
5 b. Pro-externalism
3 c. Disjunctivism
B. Internal Justification
10 1. Epistemic virtues
8 2. Pragmatic justification
17 3. Evidentialism a. Evidence
9 b. Evidentialism
16 4. Foundationalism a. Foundationalism
15 b. Basic beliefs
11 c. Empirical foundations
8 d. Rational foundations
6 e. Pro-foundations
18 f. Foundationalism critique
31 5. Coherentism a. Coherence as justification
18 b. Pro-coherentism
23 c. Coherentism critique
C. External Justification
20 1. External Justification
14 2. Causal Justification
14 3. Reliabilism a. Reliable knowledge
15 b. Anti-reliabilism
3 4. Tracking the Facts
5 5. Controlling Beliefs
18 6. Contextual Justification a. Contextualism
10 b. Invariantism
18 7. Testimony
9 8. Social Justification
7 9. Naturalised Epistemology
7 10. Anti External Justification
D. Scepticism
33 1. Scepticism
8 2. Types of Scepticism
18 3. Illusion Scepticism
3 4. Demon Scepticism
7 5. Dream Scepticism
30 6. Scepticism Critique
E. Relativism
31 1. Relativism
4 2. Knowledge as Convention
22 3. Subjectivism
12 4. Cultural relativism
7 5. Language Relativism
19 6. Relativism Critique
674 14. Science
546 15. Nature of Minds
492 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
857 18. Thought
835 19. Language
312 20. Action
264 21. Aesthetics
960 22. Metaethics
987 23. Ethics
912 24. Political Theory
750 25. Social Practice
992 26. Natural Theory
713 27. Natural Reality
428 28. God
296 29. Religion